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Synonyms for enlist

Synonyms for enlist: recruit and engage. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for enlist

Interchangeable with enlist in this sense

Audited under enlist's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one enlist carries in that sense.

recruitverb, in the sense "to persuade people to join a group or support a cause"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name enlist as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

engageengage is a verb in the sense "hire for work or assistance"

one of these comes from enlist's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsGroups and collections

to persuade people to join a group or support a cause

She plans to enlist volunteers to help clean the park.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

recruit

Same sentence, swapped: She plans to recruit volunteers to help clean the park.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for enlist in the sentence quoted.

dismiss
discourage
reject

Where enlist turns up in the game

enlist is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play enlist

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so enlist reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other groups and collections words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

congregateverbgatherto gather together as a group in one placeFoothillsHas a reason line cooperativelyadverbjointlyin a manner that involves people working together toward a shared goalFoothillsHas a reason line corralverbherdto gather people or animals together into a controlled group.FoothillsHas a reason line countrynounlandthe people who live in a nation or countryFoothillsHas a reason line companynouncallera social or business visitorTreeline2 sensesHas a reason line conveneverbassembleto come together, or bring people together, for a formal meetingTreelineHas a reason line ghostnountoucha suggestion of some qualityFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line giftnounpresentsomething given voluntarily, without payment, to please someoneFoothillsHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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